Honey Badger Has a Heart: A story of zooms, wiggles, and the love in the pause - Hardcover

Rawls McQuillan, Brian Scott: - Brian Rawls-McQuillan is a father, technology leader, artist, and debut children's-book author based in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his husband and their two young sons.His first book, "Honey Badger Has a Heart," was inspired by watching his younger son explore the world at age seven with an incredible zeal for life. Brian began to recognize that the same qualities that can test a parent's patience-boundless energy, curiosity, fearlessness, determination, and mischief-are often the qualities that make childhood so joyful.Challenging and wonderful can both be true at the same time.Too often, spirited children are labeled "too loud," "too wild," "too stubborn," or simply "too much." Over time, those labels can influence how others see them and, eventually, how they see themselves. Through "Honey Badger Has a Heart," Brian celebrates the whole child: the wildness and the tenderness, the independence and the connection, the chaos and the enormous heart behind it all.Brian sees the honey badger as a fitting spirit animal for Generation Alpha-bold, determined, curious, and ready to take on the world. As a parent, he feels fortunate to have a front-row seat as this remarkable generation begins shaping the future.For Brian, writing this book was a little like bottling lightning: a way to preserve the spirit of childhood while reminding families that big energy and a very big heart often live in the same child.